A major study into Universal Basic Income has found the majority of people who were handed no-strings-attached payments worked fewer hours and spent more time on leisure.
In what may be a disappointment to liberals and libertarians who have pushed the concept as a means to address income inequality, the study found that those who received the payment were on average two per cent less likely to be employed.
Those who did have jobs worked on average 1.3 fewer hours per week than those in the control group.The concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI) has been around for centuries and has […]
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